Wheel and rim



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F. W. GILLMORE WHEEL AND RIM Filed May 28, 1925 Fig frczzz GJZZmore www Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES FRANK iw. GILLMORE 0F LORAIN, OHIO.

WHEEL ANI) RIM.

Application led May 28, 1925. Serial No. 33,443.

To (1U wlw/1L t may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK 1V. GILLMoRn, a citizen ot the United States of America, and a resident of Lorain, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in W heels and Rims, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

At the present time a i constantly increasing number -of automobiles are being equipped with disc wheels. In spite of this, however, various features of the disc wheels heretofore constructed have rendered these wheels appreciablyl unsatisfactory and have retarded the wide'.l use of the disc wheel. My invention provides a wheel free from these objections and a rim particularly designed or use with this wheel. In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a part thereof I have shown, for purposes of illustration, one vform which my invention may assume. In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of this illustrative embodiment of my invention,

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, while Figure 4 is ia section on the line 4--4 of Figure 3.

The wheel herein shown comprises a hub 11 generally similar to the hubs now in use for demountable wheels but having a flange 12 provided with a plurality of recesses 13 each adapted to receive one of the projections 14 carried by the inner band 15 of the disc 16 which forms the body of the-wheel and is arranged t be secured to the hub 11 by-means providing unusual resistance to shear and herein shown as bolts 17 passing through apertures 18 and 19 in the recesses 13 and projections 14 and arranged to irmliy clamp the flange 12 and disc 16 between -bo t heads 20 engaging the rear face of the recesses 13 and nuts 21 formed to closely engage the rear face of the projections 14. Exteriorly of the band 15 the disc 16 comprises a band 22 extending the greater part of the distance between the flange 12 and the periphery of the wheel, disposed in a plane parallel to and rearwardly of the median plane of the wheel in which the band 15 1s situated, connected to the band 15 by an intermediate curved section 23, and connected,

means of a cylindrical section 24 and a y 25 substantially parallel to the mesection dian plane of the wheel and lin advance thereof, to a cylindrical elloe portion 26 adapted to receive the tire rim and integral with the disc 16.

y The tire rim herein shown comprises a plurality of sections 27 adapted to be placed end to end upon the rim engaging portions of the tire 28 to form a complete rim 29 on which the tire 28 is mounted. This rim 29, and the tire carried thereby, is then adapted to be placed upon the felloe 26 in the usual manner and is limited in its inward movement by engagement of the shoulder 30 on ythe rim 29 with the outer corner of the felloe 26 formed bythe junction of the felloe 26 and the band 25. The rim 29 is then adapted to be secured in this assembled position by means of a plurality of securing means each lherein shown as comprising a pin 31 extending between the felloe 26 and cylindrical section 24, secured in position -by means of a reduced extension 32 passing through an aperture 33 in the cylindrical section 24 and headed, and arranged to rotatably support a bolt 34 extending between the felloe 26 and the cylindrical section 24, provided with a head 35 by means of which it may be rotated, and provided with a.v

threaded section 36 adapted to engage a cooperating threaded section 37 formed on the central aperture of a member 38 provided `with a pair of spaced prongs 39 each extending through apertures 40 in the felloe 26 and adapted to be advanced, by rotation of the nut 34, into position extending through apertures 41 in the abutting ends of adjacent rim sections 27 to thus function, either alone because of its angle ofengagement with the rim sections, or in cooperation with the inextensible bead portions 42 of the tire 28, to hold the rim sections 27 assembled into the complete rim 29 and to at the same time hold the rim 29 lirmly in position-upon the felloe 26.

The rim 29, elloe 26, and cylindrical section 24 are provided with aperturesv 43, 4,4, and 45, respectively, arranged to permit the passage therethrough of the tire valve stem 46 and to cooperate therewith to readil aline the rim 29 circumferentially ofthe fel-7 loe 26 to permit the prongs 39 to readily enter the apertures 41, and lthe band 25 is formed of a width appreciabl less than the length ofthe valve stem 46 w ereby the tip 47 of the valve stem 46 is disposed within the space forward of the band 22 readlly mcessible fiom the, from; of the wheel and Without lie necessity of any iocal deforma @inns of inteiruptions in the disc.

it will be Obvious from the above description that vmius features m this Wheel may be used when' than with 'the pai'ticuiar rim herein showiny ha: the rim iaferein shawn may b@ used with wiieals other than. that bemin shown, thai: the rim und wiieei heiein shown eff sively cooperate to fulfill the pincim abject of my invention, and that the particuim: embodiment of my invention bemin shown and desci'ibed may be variously changed and mndd w'gixouf departing from the spirit of my inventifm or Sacricing ih@ advantages theien. lit wiii thmefm im undeiszood that dais disciosure is illustrativa only and hm; :my invention is noi", iimif ahmw.

A diss Wheel Comp-rising a disc member and a hub member, one of said members b@- ing provided with a plurality of bosses mi ranged in am annuius about the axis of said Wheel and the other of said membeis being pmvider with a, purality of recesses m iangad in a, corresponding anmius and Qaii adapted to receive @ne of said bosses wi v said members me in assembiedreiatiom mi means for seeming said;y members in azssem! o 500m said disc membwei".

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